Hey guys,Long time owner of active sky. Haven't been simming for a while and did a complete uninstall/reinstall of fsx recently. Ever since active sky is acting really strange for me.Just did an uninstall.reinstall of that too and still have problems.firstly the performance seems to be awful compared to before. I have fps externally locked to 23 and unlimited in fsx like always. when I fly in heavy cloud situations like the preset "instrument flight" it drops and stays around 17 on the ground and at low alt.I had cloud layers set to 5, then dropped to 3 and no difference in performance.Secondly, active sky seems to be drawing clouds out to the horizon regardless of view distance settings and the haze layer seems not to be working.Also active sky seems to keep resetting my fsx rate of weather change to medium, dunno if this is right?Also another strange issue is now when I fly the PMDG-747 the autopilot has a mind of it's own. I'm still using my old fsuipc settings for wind and temp control but it doesn't seem to work.I'm not getting s-turns, but haven't been flying via FMC yet, just testing via standard heading/speed and alt in MCP. If you dial a heading it always stays just shy of it. It will never reach the desired heading.Anyway, as you can probably imagine, I'm a little confused and frustrated at this stage.FSX default weather is fine and not causing any issues for me.i have also updated to sp3 as of last night and still no joy.Any help or suggestions would be welcomed.thanks,Mark.

Hi Mark, OK, We'll go through the list one at a time: 1. Try the Smooth Cloud or the DWC weather depiction mode in ASE. and see what happens. 2. View distance is not the same as cloud draw distance. FSX controls both of those. See what your cloud draw distance is set at in FSX. Not sure what you mean by "haze layer is not working". Please explain a bit more and I can make a suggestion there. ASE will over-ride what is in FSX so you should look at that slider in ASE and that is the setting that will be used by FSX no matter what the FSX slider shows. 3. You need to start over with your FSUIPC settings. Too much has changed within the program. Also, there is a Readme document in your ASE folder that you should refer to.

Cheers for the reply Jim.Ok, meant visbility smoothing not haze lazer, sorry :) Yea realised thats related to DWC. Switched to that and ok now.Still getting fairly poor performance. can drop to 15 fps for me. Also didn't see the rate of change slider :) set that to "0" now.Only have cloud layers to 3 and cloud draw distance to 70 in fsx.Installed fresh fsuipc.Still getting HDG mode in pmdg 747 being off by a fair bit. about 10degrees from whatever heading you set it to.Reinstalled that plane and stil the same. Tried with default fsx weather and plane is still not tracking true, but not as far off as with ASE.Mark.

Hi, Are you using my suggested settings from the top of this forum? What are your computer specs? Try with a default plane and ASE and see what happens.

I am having trouble with ASE. I need to input my own weather for a path I am retracing. it seems to never be correct for direction or speed. my altimeter will change even on the ground. reset it and moments later it's wrong and needs to be reset. if I set the winds for 160 degrees, it will show 195+. same for winds aloft.

 

ASE will sometimes show the proper winds on the ground, but no clouds or rain. I can let the system idle for a half an hour and still nothing in the sky. I have been trying to deal with this since February 2013 with little positive results.